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Android 14 adds support for using smartphones as a webcams (www.esper.io)

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5431344...

Can I replace the wired USB cable with a USB port in this keyboard?

I have a cheap MechanicalEagle Z-77 keyboard....

Russell Brand’s CENSORSHIP Campaign Should Frighten You: Max Blumenthal (www.youtube.com)

Popular Thesaurus Website Used in Sneaky Cryptojacking Scheme (www.hackread.com)

Researchers discover attempt to infect leading Egyptian opposition politician with Predator spyware (apnews.com)

AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)

Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.

X Announces It’s Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st (www.socialmediatoday.com)

'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars (www.reuters.com)

Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, accusing Linus Media Group of cultivating a toxic work environment and encouraging a work culture that was detrimental to her health as well as sexual harassment directed at her by Linus Media...

First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)

Everything Microsoft announced at its Surface and AI event (www.engadget.com)

Along with a heap of Copilot updates, the company revealed two new consumer laptops....

The Age of the Grift Shift (tante.cc)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5323962...

Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/2514293

Room Temperature Superconductors - This Changes EVERYTHING! (youtu.be)

They Literally Don't make Things Like They Used To - SOME MORE NEWS (www.youtube.com)

(Sorry if this is the wrong community to post this)

We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit News (www.ifixit.com)

[Corp Blog] How attackers use inbox rules to evade detection after email account compromise (blog.barracuda.com)

Summary...

UK's controversial online safety bill set to become law (www.computerworld.com)

38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers (www.wiz.io)

Cisco beefs up cybersecurity play with $28 bln Splunk deal (www.reuters.com)

What the most ‘Chinese’ smartphone yet tells us about politics | Financial Times (www.ft.com)

Author of Chip War writes:...

Does anyone know of a trustworthy and curated list of qanon sites that I can use for my pihole(s)?

So, until recently, I have been using github.com/rimu/no-qanon/blob/master/hosts.txt...

Latest WhatsApp Beta Features Native iPad Support (www.macrumors.com)

TL;DR: WhatsApp for iPad is finally coming as a separate app, allowing users to link it to their main account independently, syncing messages with their primary phone.